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“Casting Call for Cautionary Tales” by M. Louise Stanley is part of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's “Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid” exhibit.

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These artists put a new spin on old folktales in ‘Artist as Maggid’ at CJM

by Laura Paull September 25, 2017

Of all the ceremonial and pastoral roles in Judaism, one of the least known in contemporary times may be the maggid, the keeper of the stories of the extended tribe. […]